Patents Assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications
  • REAL-TIME PATH FINDING APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20120158288
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a real-time path finding apparatus. The real-time path finding apparatus includes an input unit, an extraction unit, and an analysis unit. The input unit receives map-related information and real-time variation information. The extraction unit extracts path-finding information for performing path finding, from the map-related information and the real-time variation information. The analysis unit generates path-finding guidance by analyzing the map-related information of the path-finding information, and generates a path-finding route in consideration of the real-time variation information of the path-finding information together with the path-finding guidance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-June CHANG, Hang-Kee KIM, Chang-Joon PARK
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL SIGNALS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120155434
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method transmitting uplink control signals. The method for transmitting uplink control signals includes allocating resources on an uplink control channel commonly used by a first control signal requesting an uplink data channel and a second control signal requesting automatic retransmission to a transmitter; transforming the first control signal and the second control signal into a predetermined symbol; changing a phase of the transformed and output symbol, when the first control signal is transmitted or when the first control signal and the second signal are simultaneously transmitted; and spreading an output symbol of which the phase is changed by a spreading code to transmit the spread output symbol using the resources on the allocated uplink control channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Ki Hyuk PARK
  • APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VIRTUAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20120155461
    Abstract: An apparatus for managing a virtual network perform functions of a control plane and a management plane of a network element, including a plurality of forwarding elements forwarding packets, by a control management system, implemented separately from a network element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Doyeon Kim, Jae Gi Lee, Taesang Choi
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING SECURITY SITUATION AND GENERATING SITUATION INFORMATION BASED ON SPATIAL LINKAGE OF PHYSICAL AND IT SECURITY
    Publication number: 20120159650
    Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing security situation and generating situation information based on spatial linkage of physical and IT security, the apparatus includes: a security event collection unit for mapping, when a security event is detected from a security device, unique information of the security device to a location or an object in a real space, and collecting correlated security events based on the mapped information; a security situation awareness unit for determining a type of a security situation and a degree of threat based on the correlated security events; and a situation information generation unit for analyzing a correlation between the correlated security events and the security event to generate security situation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyeon Koo CHO, Beom Hwan CHANG, Chi Yoon JEONG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEARCHING FOR NEIGHBORING PARTICLES BY USING TEMPORAL CONTINUITY
    Publication number: 20120158377
    Abstract: A method for searching for neighboring particles includes: setting neighbor target particles of a current particle to calculate mutual influences between the neighbor target particles and the current particle; selecting neighboring particles depending on a calculation result of the mutual influences to store indexes of the neighboring particles in the current particle; updating locations and information of the current particle based on power of the mutual influences and proceeding to a next time step; determining the neighboring particles selected at a previous time step as the neighbor target particles; and repeating above steps starting from said calculating mutual influences regarding the newly determined neighbor target particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Hyoung PYO, BONKI KOO
  • APPRATUS AND METHOD FOR LAWFUL INTERCEPTION
    Publication number: 20120155333
    Abstract: A lawful interception apparatus activates, invocates, and terminates a lawful interception using a SIP (session initiation protocol) message that is transmitted and received between a terminal to be intercepted and an IP multimedia subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Daejeon
    Inventors: Byungsik YOON, Song In Choi, Manho Park, Junghak Kim, Jung Been Lee, Do Hoon Kim, Taehoon Um, Hoh Peter In
  • METHOD FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20120159111
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can reduce physical memory usage of programs executed in an operating system by immediately releasing an allocated memory region at the time of a request of unloading the memory region if it is determined that the memory region which is allocated by programs executed in the operating system becomes unnecessary. A method for memory management includes making a request of unloading a memory region from programs; reclaiming a physical memory region allocated to the programs; and maintaining a record of the memory region that the programs intend to use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ik-Soon KIM, Chae Deok LIM
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEAMLESS LOCALIZATION
    Publication number: 20120158177
    Abstract: A system achieves seamless localization for a plurality of robots when first some robots moves to a shadow area where GPS signals are not received while remaining second robots receives the GPS signals, by performing an absolute localization for the second robots using the GPS signals; and performing an absolute localization for the second robots using the GPS signals; performing a relative localization for the first robots based on the second robots, thereby determining an absolute location of the first robots. Further, when the second robots move to the shadow area where the first robots have been moved, the system performs the seamless localization by determining a relative location of the second robots based on the first robots on which the relative localization has been performed, thereby determining an absolute location of the second robots based on the relative location of the second robots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicants: The Industry & Academic Cooperation in Chungnam National University, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang Eun LEE, Tae-Kyung SUNG, Sung Hoon KIM, Hyun-Ja IM, Young-Jo CHO
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION SHARING SERVICE FOR NETWORK ATTACKS
    Publication number: 20120159574
    Abstract: A system is provided to provide an information sharing service for network attacks. The system includes a service provider configured to collect and analyse information on detection and response policies to network attacks, a service registry that stores the collected information on the detection and response policies, and client terminals, each client terminal configured to request the information sharing service and search the service registry for the information on the detection and response policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Il Ahn CHEONG
  • CONTENTION BASED UPLINK TRANSMISSION METHOD
    Publication number: 20120157141
    Abstract: Provided is a contention based uplink transmission method. A base station may assign a contention based radio network temporary identifier (CB-RNTI) to a plurality of terminals, and terminals assigned with the same CB-RNTI may perform contention uplink transmission using the same radio resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Soon Yong LIM, Mi Jeong YANG, Ae Soon PARK
  • DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION POWER AMPLIFYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIGITALLY CONTROLLING SYNCHRONIZATION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120154036
    Abstract: A digital pre-distortion (DPD) power amplifying apparatus and a method for digitally controlling synchronization of the DPD power amplifying apparatus, which includes a power amplifier, a bias shifter and a DPD unit, are provided. The method includes acquiring a DPD path delay time at a path along which an input signal is fed back to the DPD unit; delaying an input signal incoming to the power amplifier by the DPD path delay time and acquiring synchronization by delaying a bias signal a predetermined number of times until the bias signal and the delayed input signal are synchronized with each other; and in response to synchronization between the bias signal and the delayed input signal being established, pre-distorting the input signal according to a feedback signal output from the power amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon OH, Joon-Hyung Kim, Gweon-Do Jo, Young-Hoon Kim
  • METHOD FOR DYNAMIC CHANGE OF OPERATION MODE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120157077
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of operating a femto base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an access request comprising a closed subscriber group (CSG) identifier (ID) from user equipment (UE); determining a number N of UE accessing the femto BS; ascertaining an access type to determine whether the UE is a CSG UE or a non-CSG UE of the femto BS on the basis of the CSG ID of the UE; and determining whether to admit access of the UE on the basis of the access type, the N and access admittable information, the access admittable information comprising UCSG, i.e., a maximum number of CSG UE of which access is admitted; UALL, i.e., a maximum number of non-CSG UE of which access is admitted; and UMAX, i.e., a maximum number of UE of which access is admitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research institute
    Inventors: Seung Que LEE, Hyung Deug BAE, Jun Sik KIM, Sang Chul OH, Kyong Tak CHO, Nam Hoon PARK
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONTENTS TRANSMISSION
    Publication number: 20120159557
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling contents transmission transmits contents received at a TV to at least one user terminal requesting a service. The apparatus selects at least one connection of a target terminal using user profile information of the target terminal and service profile information, coding the contents based on a coding scheme suitable for the selected connection, and transmits the coded contents to the target terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwihoon KIM, Chung Hyun AHN, Jin Woo HONG
  • VEHICLE SAFETY SENSOR CONTROL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120158248
    Abstract: A vehicle safety sensor control device is provided. The vehicle safety sensor control device may include a slope sensor portion sensing a slope of vehicle; a safety sensor portion sensing running safety information for a vehicle safety running; a sensing control angle generation portion sensing a sensing control angle from the sensed slope; and a safety sensor control portion controlling up and down direction angles of the safety sensor on the basis of a horizontal plane of vehicle depending on the sensing control angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung Hee Suk, Chun-Gi Lyuh, Ik Jae Chun, Sanghun Yoon, Tae Moon Roh
  • SCHEDULING APPARATUS CONSIDERING QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS)
    Publication number: 20120155363
    Abstract: Disclosed is an efficient scheduling apparatus and method for multi-cell transmission in evolved node bases (eNBs). An eNB scheduling for a multi-cell transmission service may allocate wireless resources based on a priority level, a minimum guaranteed bit rate, and a maximum bit rate. That is, a subframe may be efficiently used by minimizing the number of subframes allocated to a single session while satisfying a quality of service (QoS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jung Mo MOON, Ho Choong CHO, Sang Ho LEE
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SIMULATION RESULT AS IMAGE
    Publication number: 20120154407
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a simulation result as an image. The method includes performing a simulation of a predetermined system and generating a result log of the simulation, and converting the result log of the simulation into an image on the basis of a database storing a state and operation of a model of the system as image data. Accordingly, a simulation result of a system can be provided without detailed information about the system, an additional application, or a separate storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jin Myoung KIM, Hae Young LEE, In Geol CHUN, Won Tae KIM, Seung Min PARK
  • PREDISTORTION APPARATUSES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20120154041
    Abstract: Provided is a predistortion apparatus which performs predistortion by reflecting a memory effect when linearizing an output of a nonlinear device using a wideband signal. The predistortion apparatus includes a predistortion unit and a coefficient extraction unit. The predistortion unit selects and outputs one of outputs of the sub-predistorters as an output signal according to intensity of an input signal. The coefficient extraction unit selects one of a plurality of coefficient extractors according to intensity of a nonlinear signal which is generated in response to the output signal, extracts a plurality of predistortion coefficients with the nonlinear signal and the output signal, and delivers the extracted predistortion coefficients to the predistortion unit. Accordingly, the memory effect is reflected even when the input signal is a wideband signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young-Hoon KIM, Gweon Do JO, Jung Hoon OH, Jae Ho JUNG
  • METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION POWER IN FEMTO BASE STATION AND APPARATUS THEREOF
    Publication number: 20120157154
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling transmission power in a femto base station is provided. The method includes: predicting femto base station interference to be given from an adjacent femto base station to a terminal; predicting macro base station interference to be given from a macro base station to the terminal; determining transmission power for the terminal; and transmitting a downlink signal to the terminal on the basis of the transmission power, wherein the femto base station interference is predicted on the basis of a distance between serving femto base station and the adjacent femto base station and the transmission power of the adjacent femto base station, and the macro base station interference is predicted on the basis of a distance between serving femto base station and the macro base station and the transmission power of the macro base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kyong Tak CHO, Jun Sik KIM, Seung Que LEE, Hyung Deug BAE, Sang Chul OH, Nam Hoon PARK
  • SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER WITH TRENCH ISOLATION
    Publication number: 20120153423
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silicon photomultiplier with trench isolation for maintaining the photon detection efficiency high while increasing the dynamic range, by reducing the degradation of the effective fill factor that follows the increase of cell number density intended for a dynamic range enhancement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Joon Sung LEE
  • CURRENT SWITCH DRIVING CIRCUIT AND DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER
    Publication number: 20120154189
    Abstract: Provided are a current switch driving circuit generating a signal for driving a current switch, and a digital-to-analog converter using the same. The current switch driving circuit includes a first PMOS transistor in which a source terminal is connected to a power supply terminal, a gate terminal receives an input signal, and a drain terminal outputs a driving signal, an NMOS transistor in which a drain terminal is connected to the drain terminal of the first PMOS transistor, and a gate terminal receives the input signal, a second PMOS transistor in which a source terminal is connected to a source terminal of the NMOS transistor, a gate terminal is connected to a bias voltage terminal, and a drain terminal is connected to a ground terminal, and a control current source allowing the second PMOS transistor to be maintained constantly in an ON state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Reasearch Institute
    Inventors: Min-Hyung CHO, Yi-Gyeong Kim, Jong-Kee Kwon